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Children at our borders came to legally seek refugee status

The Lowell Sun

Updated:
07/31/2014 09:44:41 AM EDT

Just to clarify for those who are less than well informed, most of the children at our border are not here illegally.

They are applying for a change of status as refugees or asylees. The current U.S. law that applies to them specifies that children from those Central American nations have the opportunity to apply for refugee status. They are thus acting within the law and in no way can be classified as "illegals."

They are desperate young human beings acting fully within the framework of American law passed in Congress in a bipartisan vote and signed into law by President Bush.

Sending them back without a hearing would in fact be a violation of current U.S. law.

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